Currently, Sukie is extremely upset with Meryl, and the whole of our small community is in an uproar.

Even if you don’t agree with Sukie’s outrage, you must understand that it comes from the part of her that wants to see other’s at their best, even though she’s an atheist.

I think this highlights a key difference between Sukie and myself – while Sukie will call others where they deviate from their chosen doctrine, I won’t (well, I avoid it, at least.)

I think it’s best to let others make their own mistakes and screw up, and maybe that’s a rather apathetic view.

Ah bloggie, where would I be without you?

I’m wrapping up the last 2 weeks of my classes, same as Sukie. I’ll probably scoot by with ‘C’s, again. I don’t really care. I’m looking forward to being done for a while. School in the fall, though.

It’s a conundrum, innit?

Sukie tells me that the Mac guys have shipped my iBook to Apple for work, should be at their expense. I hope Apple fixes the issue permanently, but I’ve just read online about cases where Apple owners have repeatedly sent their iBooks back to Apple for maintenance

Oh well, I hope it gets fixed and I can use it again.

In Hamlet, when the Queen seeks to console Hamlet from the loss of his father, she advises:

All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

Again, my sympathies, Yoshi.

I have to blog about something. Today, I ended my 7 game losing streak in WarCraft III. I am very proud of how clever my victory was.

It was on this map here. I was in the upper left and my opponent was at the top. From the get-go I built up my Archmage and some Fighters and set out to gain XP by attacking the groups of ‘independent’ enemies scattered throughout the map. When I did encounter my opponent it was because I noticed he was really close to my base – we were right next to each other!

Anyway, long story short, we were taking shots at each other when I checked his base he has seriously beefed up defenses, so I thought up a plan that I swear would make Sun-Tzu proud. I took my Dwarven Mortar Teams (4 of em) and set about cutting a path through to his base … so I could enter behind his defenses and wreak some very unpleasant havok.

I cut a path wide enough for my entire army to go through, and when the last trees fell, his ghouls paused for a second, not sure if they should keep gathering wood or attack. They charged in to my troops, I think they were trying to get at my heroes, but I made short work of his minions, completely avoiding his defenses and devastating his base.

Man, I am proud of that victory. He had a second base going up but I mopped it up pretty fast. I am glad that I won, and hopefully I will be able to keep up the winnings.

I maybe broke down
But I’m not broken
I may be loud
But I’m not outspoken

Yes, I still have a migraine.

My condolences to Yoshi and Meryl Everything just seems so crappy right now.

Right now I’m at the business end of a bad headache. I’m pretty sure it’s both caffeine and sugar related, so I’m in some kind of a migraine prison right now.

Ouch ouch ouch.

My WarCraft III Profile – it stinks real bad.

Anyway, what’s up y’all? Today my iBook bit the dust. There’s a chance that it’ll come back if I take it to a Mac service center – a lot of iBook G3’s have the same problem where the motherboard dies – so many customers had this problem on their iBooks that Apple is replacing these parts out of their own pockets – sucks that it died and nearly swallowed up my little graphics engine, it’ll be cool if they can do something about it.

It’s been nice having a laptop, but I would rather still fix up my home PC than buy a new laptop. Sukie seems really upset, I know she’s worried that I am pissed, but mostly, I’m just going to be bored at work, bored out of my silly little mind.

There’s schoolwork I can/will do, but that doesn’t take too long and I’m almost done with my Associates anyway – I don’t even know yet if I will go to school next semester.

Catch y’all later!

Late Night Love Poem (for Sukie)
There is not a God
The stars are silent
My heart aches
In your absence

I close my eyes and
Breathe you in
Inebriating miasma
strained Gossamer

The wildest colors
of your flamboyance
purvey a warning
I will die smiling

We are meant to have
What we are meant to lose

Do we really ever have anything?

“And she’s buying a stairway to heaven …”

I can’t help but listen to “Stairway to Heaven” – Led Zeppelin is so awesome.

So today I hear that Jabba is misbehaving in school. He doesn’t point at the words he reads, and doesn’t pay attention when the teacher is talking. His teacher actually used the words ’stares off in to space’, which almost got me ticked, but I bit my tongue. I know what she meant, Jabba gets this look in his eyes when he’s ’somewhere else’ in his mind. Not to get too sappy, but he’s in his imagination, and you can see the gears in his head thinking up some story or some clever relation between things he’s learning. He’s just bright, and not at all innattentive

I’m wondering if there’s a correlation between the imposed conformity in early childhood and the angst of teenage years? Ok, I don’t really wonder. Frankly, I think Kindergarden is just to warm you up to the idea of 7 hours in a class-room with somebody telling you what to do, which just warms you up for being in a cubicle for 8-16 hours a day with somebody else telling you what to do.

I guess it just shows some molds are made to be broken, so how do I convey this to my son without him getting even worse in school? I was joking with him and said that since he didn’t like to learn at school I’d have to stop teaching him stuff so he’d be forced to learn at school, and he started to choke up and get upset.

It’s times like that I am extremely glad that I have this kid, who is just too damn smart. There’s not a thing he can’t learn. It’s an awesome responsibility to be his father.